Smaller brain volume also predicts worse performance on memory testing," she explained. "The more people drank, the less the volume of their gray matter," Topiwala said via email. "Brain volume reduces with age and more severely with dementia.
In "Improving our Brain Health as We Age," he’ll offer strategies for boosting brain health and lowering one’s risk for dementia. "The risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias also increases. "The reason that people fail is because they quit trying," said Dr. Bobinet. We have now seen an increase in strokes from COVID-19 among people of almost all ages. Tony Rao, a visiting clinical fellow in Old Age Psychiatry at King’s College London, told CNN that given the large sample size, it was unlikely the study’s findings could have arisen by chance. "While we can’t yet say for sure whether there is ‘no safe level’ of alcohol regarding brain health at the moment, it has been known for decades that heavy drinking is bad for brain health," Sadie Boniface, head of research at the UK’s Institute of Alcohol Studies, told CNN via email.